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Lukanga Swamp

Designations
Official nameLukanga Swamps
Designated8 November 2005
Reference no.1580[1]
NASA image of Lukanga Swamp. Dark spots in the swamp are lagoons, elsewhere the swamp is covered in thick vegetation, mainly papyrus. Dark areas near the Kafue River are swamps with less vegetation. The overlay map shows main rivers, floodplain extent, and unpaved roads in yellow.

Lukanga Swamp is a major wetland in the Central Province of Zambia, about 50 km west of Kabwe.[2] Its permanently swampy area consists of a roughly circular area with a diameter of 40 to 50 km covering 1850 km2, plus roughly 250 km2 in the mouths of and along rivers discharging into it such as the Lukanga River from the north-east, plus another 500 km2 either side of the Kafue River to the west and north-west, making 2600 km2 in total.[3] It contains many lagoons such as Lake Chiposhye and Lake Suye[2] but few large channels, and its average depth is only 1.5 m.

  1. ^ "Lukanga Swamps". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b Terracarta/International Travel Maps, Vancouver Canada: "Zambia, 2nd edition", 2000
  3. ^ Google Earth accessed 2007.

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